Jacopo da Verona
1355–1443 · Italian painter of the late fourteenth century from Verona
Jacopo da Verona was an Italian painter active at the close of the fourteenth century, born in Verona around 1355 and who died between 1442 and 1443. His best-documented work is the fresco cycle in the Bovi Chapel, now part of the San Michele Oratory in Padua, which makes him a useful witness to painting in northern Italy at that time.
Very little is known about his life. The first mention of him is a notarial deed dated 1383, recording a grant of land in his favour, where he is called "magistrum Jacopum pictorem" (Master Jacopo the painter). The document places him in the Contrada of Santa Cecilia in Verona. There are no certain records of his training.
His name and the completion year, 1397, are inscribed on a dedicatory plaque inside the chapel, making this the one securely dated work. Other works are attributed to him, mainly in the Veneto: the polyptych in the church of Boi di Caprino, now in the Museo di Castelvecchio in Verona, and fresco fragments on the tomb of Ilario Sanguinazzi in the Eremitani church in Padua, an attribution proposed by Pietro Toesca in 1927.